Contents: 1. Technology and innovation policy: Setting the stage -- 2. Technology policies to enhance private-sector r … policy environment -- 6. Technology policies to leverage public-sector r&d -- 7. Global innovation systems -- 8. Toward a … technology/innovation policy ecosystem -- Index. …

1. Yet another measure of ignorance / Albert N. Link -- 2. Innovation and creativity : a slogan, nothing but a slogan … / Benoit Godin -- 3. From knowledge to innovation : the role of knowledge spillover entrepreneurship / David B. Audretsch, Erik … E. Lehmann, and Joshua Hinger -- 4. Innovation strategies combining internal and external knowledge / Borje Johansson …

There is great interest in evaluating the impact of private equity investments on innovation and economic growth …. However, there is no direct empirical evidence on the effects of such transactions on the innovation strategies of … Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program research awards. We find that SBIR firms attracting private equity investments are …